Life Updates - 2017
I am not sure if anyone's still reading this blog. But if you are here, Hello! Nice to see you!
I stopped updating quite a while ago. I had to decide between prioritizing my time and blogging took a backseat. I anyways approached blogging from a very casual, chatty perspective (in case you missed it from my terrible pictures of products & swatches, and no blog post announcing the acquisition of a DLSR in 2014). But in 2015, beauty blogs started to become uber professional with color co-ordinated white flatlays, vlogs, five posts a day and diplomatic no-ratings reviews. No judgment there, it just was the direction beauty blogging in India seemed to be taking. And one I had no time for.
With my full-time job and primal lifestyle to better my health, I didn't have the mental mind space to work on reinventing this blog, and honestly, I didn't want to temper my thoughts & opinions just to build professional inroads with the Indian beauty brands. I knew my blog would seem dated and homegrown compared to the professional spaces that were being created, so I decided to take a step back.
Every once in a while, I get an email from a reader. Asking me where I am, what's up with me, when will I blog again. It's actually very touching and after quite a few such emails in the last three years, I felt I should share some updates about my life.
1. I moved to Australia a year ago.
2. I still follow a low-carb high-fat primal diet. I complete five years this September and have successfully (touchwood) kept my weight off. Losing my excess weight completely redefined my perspective on beauty though.
3. I still am a beauty addict, and in touch with all my fellow blogger friends who I admire. I am very active on Instagram, where I do short product reviews. You can see my feed here. Please be warned, I am still the queen of crappy beauty product pictures.
That's about it, right now. I may start blogging again, but it won't be restricted to beauty, and will probably be a lot more diversified.
Thank you for still reading this blog! I love you!
Soo good to see your blog post. You are one of the first bloggers I was reading.Absolutely love your blog and insta posts. I follow you on Instagram as boombox 112. I love you. You are the best. God bless.
ReplyDeleteThank you Abha! You are a darling
DeleteTanvir I am so happy that you posted updates on your whereabouts.
ReplyDeleteYou won't believe but honestly I still go to bookmarked page of your write-ups and wonder how novel and well thought and researched your articles were with your unique sense of humour
Glad you posted
I am really looking forward for you to come and conquer the blogosphere space again
Lots of best wishes
Ashima, thank you so much for those words of encouragement. I am planning to start blogging again. I hope I stay with it!
DeleteOh yes..I still do read ur blog..and so happy to have u back gal
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's an honor!
DeleteHey !!!! So glad to see you back .. Was travelling and came back to a pleasant surprise... saw your 3 posts !!! Keep uu entertained and enlightened with your post regularly!!! You mentioned me !!! I am famous
ReplyDeleteHey !!!! So glad to see you back ...Was travelling and came back to a pleasant surprise... saw your 3 posts !!! Keep us entertained and enlightened with your post regularly!!! You mentioned me !!! I am famous
ReplyDeleteoh how i missed your blog. welcome back... so so happy to see you. i used to always refer to your blog for reasonably priced beauty product reviews and how to get products to multi task.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you back!I love reading your blog. I hope you keep writing often now.
ReplyDeleteOMG I cannot believe I missed this update and just saw it.. I would come back and keep checking your site till last year sometime.
ReplyDeleteAnd oh my god. You are right. Beauty blogging has changed way too much.